Major Finley Joines &
Mary "Mollie" Edwards

Major Finley Joines, son of
Ezekiel JOINES & Pheraby CAUDILL, was born May 1, 1833,
in Wilkes Co., NC, and died Dec. 28, 1917, in Alleghany Co., NC.
He married Mary "Mollie" Edwards, daughter of Solomon Osborne EDWARDS,
Sr., & Mazy MCMILLAN. She was born May 7, 1850, in Ashe
Co., NC, and died Nov. 22, 1918, in Alleghany Co., NC. Major F.
and Mollie Edwards Joines are buried at the Antioch Primitive
Baptist Church in Alleghany Co., NC.

Notes

ajor Finley Joines was a well-educated man who was a
teacher and a surveyor in Alleghany County. According to
Alleghany County Heritage (1983), p.280, Major often traveled
on horseback to teach children who could not otherwise attend
school.

Mar. 13, 1873. M.F. JOINES to Calvin AUSTIN, 3 year
lease for some woodland. Calvin AUSTIN to have all he clears
& makes a good fence around & takes all the logs off
& cuts all maples, gums, beeches, dogwoods, & grub? the
ground well to have 3 crops, provided said AUSTIN builds a house
& marks the land himself, to have no liberty to sell his
lease to anyone except said JOINES. Signed: M.F. JOINES, Calvin
AUSTIN. Wit: Thomas IRWIN. Proved Sept.? 1, 1873, by Calvin
AUSTIN. (Alleghany DB 2:53.)

Apr. 12, 1876. M.F. JOINES & Jacob CROUSE, boundary
agreement concerning the land where JOINES lives and where the
said CROUSE & James MABE lives. On the lower end of the
meadow, JOINES is to go to the foot of the hill south to
the cross fence the old fence the gate down
the fence toward James MABE to JOINS old line south to a
chestnut at Elk Creek. Signed: M.F. JOINES, Jacob (X) CROUSE.
Wit: M.E. (X) JOINES. Proved Jan. 19, 1878, by M.E. JOINES.
(Alleghany DB 2:442.)

Note: the above deed involves some of
the many heirs of A.B. MCMILLAN who died childless in Alleghany
County in 1864, leaving a large estate. His heirs included his
neice, Mazy McMillan (wife of Solomon O. Edwards, Sr.), who was
the mother of Mollie Edwards who married M.F.
Joines.